Extract Open tar.gz Compress File

Extract Open tar.gz Compress File.

The
command example below show how to use tar command to open or extract compress
tar.gz file. This tar command to extract tar.gz file is don e on Fedora
10 system to extract the areca-7.1.5-linux-gtk-32.tar.gz file, make sure that the
tar.gz fle that you need to extract in current directory and please remember to
change the tar.gz filename base on your needs :-)

1. Verify that tar.gz file inside
current directory by using ls command.

[root@fedora
backup]# ls

areca-7.1.5-linux-gtk-32.tar.gz
readme.txt

[root@fedora
backup]#

2. Execute tar command with xvfz options to extract
open tar.gz file

[root@fedora
backup]# tar xvfz
areca-7.1.5-linux-gtk-32.tar.gz

./

./areca/

./areca/lib/

./areca/lib/activation.jar

./areca/lib/org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.2.0.v20060603.jar

./areca/lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar

./areca/lib/org.eclipse.jface_3.2.0.I20060605-1400.jar

./areca/lib/libarecafs.so

./areca/lib/mail.jar

./areca/lib/commons-net-1.4.1.jar

./areca/lib/areca.jar

./areca/lib/swt.jar

./areca/lib/org.eclipse.core.commands_3.2.0.I20060605-1400.jar

./areca/lib/local_policy.jar

./areca/README

./areca/bin/

./areca/bin/run_tui.sh

./areca/bin/areca_cl.sh

./areca/bin/areca_dezip.sh

./areca/bin/areca_run.sh

./areca/bin/areca_decrypt.sh

./areca/translations/

./areca/translations/resources_d_tw.properties

./areca/translations/resources_fr.properties

./areca/translations/README

./areca/translations/resources_d_ru.properties

./areca/translations/resources_it.properties

./areca/translations/resources_hu.properties

./areca/translations/resources_d_nl.properties

./areca/translations/resources_d_ja.properties

./areca/translations/resources_en.properties

./areca/translations/resources_d_cn.properties

./areca/translations/resources_de.properties

./areca/translations/resources_cs.properties

./areca/translations/resources_es.properties

./areca/translations/resources_d_se.properties

./areca/translations/resources_d_da.properties

./areca/build.xml

./areca/areca_check_version.sh

./areca/COPYING

./areca/areca.sh

./areca/AUTHORS

./areca/config/

./areca/config/fwk.properties

./areca/plugins/

./areca/help/

./areca/help/ADVANCED_ENCRYPTION_HOWTO

./areca/icons/

./areca/icons/ico_72.png

./areca/icons/ico_16.png

[root@fedora
backup]#

3. Use ls command to verify that
the uncompress tar.gz file

[root@fedora
backup]# ls

arecaareca-7.1.5-linux-gtk-32.tar.gz
readme.txt

[root@fedora
backup]#

4. You can use the nautilus to
use GNOME file manager (graphical file manager) to open and view the contents inside
the tar.gz directory that you already uncompress using command above.